Tucker Brown

He would have been in his 70s and was slowing down, wanting to be a little more involved on the horses and the fishing rather than the seed stock and the ranching.

And so it was a perfect time to do that.

And it was...

I didn't realize how cool it was that they were able to make that work at the time.

Because now, you know, we see farms and ranches split and families split over things like this all the time.

And it breaks my heart whenever, you know, they allow the tradition to kind of get in the way of success.

Oh, yeah.

He was all about still being there and kind of telling, they're like, well, I wouldn't do it that way.

We do a lot of AI and embryo transfer.

Yeah.

So whenever I went to college, I wanted to play basketball.

And so I ended up going to Lubbock Christian University in the Panhandle and playing basketball.

And I thought I would transfer to tech if I ever quit playing basketball, but I just, I loved it there.

I loved the people.

Got it.

So I did have a land management, basically a land management degree, natural resources and ecology or something like that.

Sure.

But

But I knew I needed – whenever I decided I wanted to come home, and I didn't know if I was coming home whenever I left.

But once I went to a school that was non-ag and saw the difference in the way that I got to be raised and the connection to the land, and they were great people, like some of my best friends.